Gender Masculine Usage Biblical, Biblical Latin Scripts Ἁνανίας(Ancient Greek) Pronounced Pron. an-ə-NIE-əs(English) Meaning & History From Ἁνανίας (Hananias), the Greek form of HANANIAH. In Acts in the New Testament this is the name of three characters: a disciple in Damascus, the husband of Sapphira, and the high priest of the Jews who tries Paul.